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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago.
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SendSocial.com - Send Gifts Anonymously To Anybody
“Send anything, anywhere without an address” is what this website claims it lets you carry off. Is that true? Yes, as long as you reside in the UK and you have an e-mail address or a Twitter username to go…
Compare The Old and the New Google, Side By Side
*Update: it seems that comparegoogle.com has stopped working, but you can also check out a similar service called http://www.comparecaffeine.com. Remember Google Caffeine? It’s the new Google search engine that’s going to replace the old one. We’ve tested it thoroughly, and…
GiveAMonkey.com - Having An Organized Life
What it doesHow do you get along with self-organization? If the answer is the kind of response that makes you blush and hide your face away, don’t worry – tools like GiveAMonkey are there to put an end to your…
Todaysmeet.com - Connect With Your Audience
What it doesGiving a presentation is a very challenging task. You could be nervous because you really do not know what people are thinking about what you are presenting. You might fell insecure because of this. You do not have…
1. Small Feature Set 2. Good API 3. Profit!
I start my work days by checking out the Mashable inbox. In the last couple of months, I can easily divide the news into two parts: news about Twitter, and everything else. And the first part is almost as big…
Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Printed Albums
Digital photography has brought us the benefit of being able to take as many photos as we like without additional cost, but also the curse of nearly never having the actual physical photos in our hands. With Facebook, it’s gotten…
Firefox Has Got a 100% Market Share…In Antarctica
And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only…
Skittles Site Receives an Extreme Social Makeover
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles,…
Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr;…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
HOW TO: Organize a Successful Tweetup
Stuart Foster is a marketing consultant in the Boston area. He specializes in brand management, social media, and blog outreach. He authors a blog at Thelostjacket.com. Tweetups. You can’t escape them. They are pretty much ubiquitous these days. The @…
I Can Has Cheezburger to Launch “Son of a Tweet”
Pet Holdings, the company behind sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and GraphJam, is moving into the realm of tracking Twitter memes. They’ve purchased a website called Twittypic that monitors Twitter for popular pictures and videos and posts…
Google Chrome for Mac (First Screenshots)
Google’s first try at building a web browser was almost an unexpected success: Chrome is fast and quite reliable, and I’ve made a habit of firing it up whenever my trusty old Firefox goes out of breath. Unfortunately, it’s available…
When You Love WordPress Very Much, You Tattoo It On Your Arm
This is nice, in a slightly creepy, and yet delightfully geeky kind of way: a fellow named Ed Morita decided to tattoo a WordPress logo on his forearm. It’s not just a plain, boring logo type of tattoo, there’s all…
DMfail Fails, Reborn as Re-Twit’d
The creators of sneaky Twitter app DMfail are back creating apps, but this time they’ve released something pretty useful that’s likely to last more than a week. re-Twit’d is a simple application that lets you see what’s hot on Twitter…
HistoricalTweets.com - Historical Tweets Galore
What it doesEver wonder what would have happened if Twitter had existed in days of yore? What would Abraham Lincoln tweeted? What about Bonnie and Clyde? What about famous era-defining musicians like Johnny Cash or Gram Parsons? Along comes this…
BookCrossing.com - An Online Book Club
In their own words“Where books take on a life of their own.”Why it might be a killerThe many book lovers everywhere are certain to like the approach.What it doesAll the many book lovers out there are going to relish visiting…
Send a Virtual Drink That Will Actually Get You Drunk (Invites)
Virtual gifts are big business, and virtual drinks – sending someone a cute graphic featuring a martini, a Jack and Coke, or a Mike’s Hard Lemonade, for example – is an immensely popular activity on social networks. GiveReal is a…
Top Five Firefox Add-Ons for Mom Bloggers
Jessica Smith is Chief Mom Advisor of MomForce.com and Chief Mom Officer for Wishpot.com. She chronicles her experiences as a mom and virtual executive at JessicaKnows.com. Multi-tasking is something moms, especially those online, master pretty quickly. That doesn’t mean we can’t…
Atomeet Might Be the Simplest Event Management Tool Yet
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Atomeet 20-Word Description Atomeet is a free web service that helps you organize parties and…
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